Definition of "advertency" [advertency]

• The quality or practice of being attentive or heedful; heedfulness. (noun)

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• "Any one may mistake in the application of these rules of action or calculation, for want of presence of mind, or of advertency to all that they prescribe, and this may especially happen, when he first commences them in practice."
• "It is perhaps hardly considered with sufficient advertency, that a professor in a college who is without books in tolerable supply, is analogous to the creation of nobility which for want of estate is obliged to live in rags."
• "I do think it is the ignorance and advertency of this conjunction, that makes our case both more sad and sinful than otherwise it would be."